The Sun. — London, England, 1864-02-24 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Mana.v,•ement of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. IV. Harrison. THIS EVENING (12th time' a new Opera, founded on Goldsmith's Comely, and to be called SH STOOPS TO tONQUER. Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Har After which, the Burlesque Opening of the Grand National P a ntomime, HARLEQUIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors open at half-past Six—',:ornmence at Seven. • rHEATRE ROYAL DRUR NE. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, the Performances will commence itwled ith the N(w Serlo-Comic Drama, by Performances will ent NIGHT AND MORN. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, Messrs. Barrett, FP zjames, Miss Atkinson, Miss It. Le;.dercq, and Miss To conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto mime of SIN BAD TILE SAILOR ; or, The Seven Wonders of th- World. Clowns, Messrs. 11. Bolen° le ; Pan and C. Ltaloon sauri . D a rlequins, Messrs. J. Corrnack and S. Savil Blessrs. W A. Barnes and J. atorris ; Columbines, Madame Bolen() and Misses Gunniss. Prices as usual. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily. ffiIEATRE ROYAL 11A.YNIARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE LIT LE DAISY. Miss Maria Barris. Followed by BUNKUM MULLER. Mr. Sothern.Messrs. A tter which. OUR AMERICAN COUSIN : Sothern, Buckston e, Chip p endale, Braid, Gordon, Messrs. Clark, Cullentord , &c. ; M esdames Angel, Sno wden, Harris, Lindley, Hill, &c And A KISS IN THE DARK. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM. THEATRE, Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DE MONIO ONlOTriumnhant Success) will be repeated Every Evening d u ring the Week. THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with a New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD: Messrs. 11. Widdicombe. Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett, Mgreland; Mi sse s Fer cy, Pauline Le;.lerca, Wood, Mrs. Lee, and Miss E. Lavenu. Alter which. at Eight o'clock, BEL DEMONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendlial's " Italian Chronicle'," by Mr. John Brougham. Principal charac ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Brougham, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss E. Lavenu, Mrs. Lee, and hiss Elsworthy. The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is Made to the occupants of Boxes, Box-nlacea, or Stalls, either fr play bills or for the safe keeping ot hat' and cloaks, an teats the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever. Box-ofllle open daily from 11 to ti. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--. Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, PAUL'S RETURN. After which, HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TUCKER; or The Fine Lady of Banbury Cross, and the Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't know what to do. MEW THE ATRE-RO YAL , A DELPHI.— Bole Proprietor and Manager. M r. B. Webster. 2'st Week of Miss Bateman. THIS EVENING, THE PRETTY HORSEBBEAKER. Min Woolgar and Mr. J. L. Toole. to Eight, the New Drama of LEAH Miss Bate- Sian, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling. . Phillips , and ,fn on, Stuart, Stephenson, Ebiume; aH. Simms Mrs. Billington. To conclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortunio and his Seveu Magi, Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, it. Phillips, St e phenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss lielly, Miss Patti dOeo.ihs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. LEAII.-EVERY NIGHT. 3IISS BATENIAN. ISS BATEMAN.—LEAH.—TiIIS EVENING' IVA_ the 125th appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss BATEMAN, in the character of LEAII. In consequence of the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso nation of the principal character in the new Five Act Drama of LEAH has been attended. Mr Webster begs to announce that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further notice. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion.—The New Comedy of THE SILVER LINING every Evening.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Mr. J. L. Toole every evening. The following eminent artistes are ngaged :—Mr. Benjamin Webster. Mr..J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Chas. Mathews ; Mrs. Stirling, Miss Iferbert. Mrs. Frank Mat thews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Went worth, and Mrs. Charles Mat:aews. THIS EVENING. and during the Week, at 7 o'c'ock, an entirely new Comedy, in 3 Acts, by Leicester Bucking - hatn,'Esq., entitled THE SILVER. LINING: Mr. Charles .alathews, Mr. Frederic Robinson, Mr. Ashley, Mr, John stone. Mr. Montague ; Mrs. t harles Mathews. Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Cottrell, MissWent‘vcrth, and Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by Mr. Charles Mathews just translated from the French), in his characteristic character of Un Anglais Timide, entitled COOL AS A CUCUMBER. To conclude with THE BIRTHPLACE ;OF FODGER3. Mr. J. L. Toole, ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. 11. Swauborougn. THIS EVENING, ON AND OFF. To be followed by UNLIMITED CONFIDENCE. Mr, )elforti, Mr. Porsche ; Miss Marie Wilton, Miss Thorne. After which, the Grand Chrictmas Thirlesque, 01-trIIEU3 IND EURYtHCE Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, Xsclames Swanborouah, Marie Wilton, Hughes, &c. Concluding with MARGATE SANDS. Commence at 7. • GRACE EGERTON (Mrs, Genrge Case), at the POLYGRAPHIC HALL, King William street (her THIRD SEASON in London), in her New and hig•hly suclesstul Charalteristic and :Musical Entertainment entitled "A DRAWING ROOST TO LET." EVERY EVENING, at Eight (except Saturday). Saturday Mornings at Three. Stalls. 31. ; unreserved seats. 2s. ; area, Is. Will continue positively for a month only. Last performance March 12. I.IIIE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, pn be had Every Evening of G. R. GLItNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 283. per ton. Double.. 2ls. per ton. Top 25g. „ ... 19s. Deep 225. Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W. Best Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. • TINS DAY. —Morning, 3h. 21m.—Afternoon, 3L.33m, To-sroitno-tv.-Morning, 312. 50m.—Afternoon, 4h. 4m, The Weather--Sun Office, Feb. 24, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two - o'clock Barometer-3 0.30. Wind—ME. ; moderato breeze, and fine.: 'T ,s ~~ ~C SUAL LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24, 1864. While the immediate result of last night's discus- I Sion in the House of Commons cannot but be in the highest degree satisfactory to the Government, the ulterior effect produced upon public opinion by the arguments put forth during the debate which led to that Miniaterial triumph upon the division, may be regarded with complacency by the nation at large as moat salutary, even in anticipation. That effect will become manifest more and more - as the session advances, It is already appreciable. It is im t p oss sible to look through those arguments this day, as it was impossible to listen to them last night, without feeling that good has b een d one a l re ad y by the mere fact of the discussion. It may have appeared hitherto, for some considerable time past, that almost everything tha t re q uired to be known in regard to the arbitrary seizure of the two ironclad vessels, El Tousson and El Monassia ,whi l e yet in the building yard of the Messrs. LAIRD Brothers, w as known already. And doubtless, to a certain extent, that "flattering unction" might even now be laid to the wounded sense of honour of the nation, rs a Great and Independent Power. Every thing that. needs to be known in regard to the actual seizure is known—but not so is it in regard to the correspondence and negotiations that led to that mest extraordinary interposition on the part of her MAJESTY'S Government. It was for the production of that correspondence—hitherto denied to the House and to the Country, w ith so man y other important decuincuts—it was for the tardy expla nation of what really constituted those very dubi ous and still unoxplaleed negotiation s, that the hon. gentleman moved last evening, and moved, as the event proved,' in vain. Tint 153 supporting Mr. SEYMOITR FITZGERALD'S motion, while 173 voted against it—thereby enabling the Government to tide over that difficulty, as it seems, bent as long as pos. sible upon tiding over others, by maintaining an obdurate silence and a resolute determination to combine Reticence with Non.latervention (that opuricua, left-h Anded kind of Non-Intervention which Lord DERBY defined so happily as an union of meddling with muddling) in the carrying out of their incoherent and eccen tric scheme of diplomacy. Not satisfied, however, with meddling and muddling—not satisfied with writing a great deal and doing nothing—the Government in its Foreign Policy appears to be bent beyond all things upon securing itself from anything like adverse commentary by declining to publish despatches, or by withholding them from the knowledge of Parliament as long as they might prove upon trial to be in some way practicable —leaving the chance of some happy re sult in regard to every one of their many dilemmas, to work itself out somehow through the mere chapter of accidents. From the tone adopted by Ministers, however, and by some of those important subordinates of theirs, who are thrust into the van in these discussion—it would appear that the Cabinet not only requires the House of Commons to wait patiently for any papers that in the fullness of time the Government may, upon deliberate con sideration, make up its mind at last grudg ingly to vouchsafe them, but that it requires some thing still more ! Beyond that—the Cabinet seems arrogantly to go so far in what Mr. DISRAELI bluntly calls its " scurvy" treatment of the House in regard to papers relating now to America, now to Poland, now to Den mark, that it actually manifests a com plaisant expectation that the House should meekly wait their (the Ministers') good will and pleasure in these matters of vital and most momentous im portance, that the House should actually wait, like the cattle in a storm as described by the Poet of the Seasons, that is to say—" in dumb expectancy Parliament has been won derfully patient hitherto in conceding time to a vaccillating and a self-contradictory Ad ministration.: The House of Commons especially has evinced au extraordinary amount of patience in reference to the long-withheld papers referring to the Danish War—whatever may be thought to the contrary by a fretful Chancellor of the Exchequer, a petulant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, or an irritated Attorney-General. The reiterated inter ruptions of the debate last evening by Sir BouN DELL PALMER. were not easily to be paralleled for frequency upon reference to the back volumes of " Hansard." Not satisfiedwith having:his own "say" himself, quite uninterruptedly, he seemed unable altogether to allow the enjoyment of the same privi lege by his opponents. Point blank contradictions, vexatious earplugs at a phrase, teasing explanations of a parenthetical character were squandered about him yesterday during the debate in the House of Commons, with a petulant intolerance of opinions in any way adverse to his own, quite nn befitting the First Law Officer of the Crown, from whom, in truth, in regard to all these kinds of vexed questions, one would rather look for the evidence of an undisturbed equanimity. Everything considered, in regard to the debate of lest night—while the immediate result of it, we repeat, was naturally in the highest degree delightful to our bewildered Government, the ultimate effect produced upon the public mind by the arguments (oddly terminating in that division) cannot, we would also repeat, but be in the highest degree salutary. A brief debate took place in the Commons on Monday evening, which was well worthy of public attention, and which, had it not followed so closely on the animated discussion respecting the non-pro duction of the Danish papers, would probably have attracted more notice at the time. It concerned the construction of the new Admiralty docks about to be made at the head of the Marva, at Malta, against the distinct advice of the best informed and most competent authorities. Captain TALBOT, who brought forward a motion on this subject, was anxious before the Navy Estimates came on that the House should have an opportunity of at least hearing the facts of the case, although, from a matter of form, he was on Monday evening pre vented from pressing his motion to a division. The dock proposed, he said, wculd neither answer the purposes of the naval service nor of the commercial shipping of the island. The disadvantages of the scheme are very great, and affect every part of it. In the first place, the spot selected is nearly two miles from the dockyard, and diffi cult of access. Admiral Sir WILLIAM MARTIN sad Vice-Admiral CODRINGTON, who are both fami liar with the place and the requirements of the Navy, are most strongly opposed to it. Sir WIL LIAM MARTIN has been Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean for the last three years, and is fully able to judge the case fairly and impartially. So strong are the gallant officer's opinions on this matter, that he has suggested that Admiral COD RINGTON should be allowed to come home for the express purpose of pointing out the grave errors of the Admiralty scheme, and the immense advantages of that plan which must at once commend itself to the approval of anyone who knows the island—i. e., the selection of the French Creek. This Creek, which the Admiralty themselves are forced to admit is vastly superior to the proposed site, has a fine natural basin, which will with ease receive the largest ships. The Government has gone to great expense to get this Creek, which is only about 800 yards from the dockyard, and which possesses every recommendation for the proposed undertaking, and then with the ingenious perversity and wronghead edness so often perceptible in our naval arrange ments, they go nearly two miles off to construct a dock in a place which has not ono single qualifica tion for it. It is not surprising that the opinions of the whole naval service are decidedly opposed to such a preposterous scheme, more especially when we remember the importance of the new dock. We have only two small docks in the Mediterranean that are capable of receiving ships draw ing twenty-two feet of water, and these it is plain would not accommodate our large line-of battle ships when loaded. So long ago as 1861 Admiral CODRINGTON drew the attention of the Admiralty to this subject, pointing out the incon- Iveniencies which might result from the delay entailed by having to send home British vessels that needed repair while foreign vessels can have theirs and be at sea again in a few days. It is absurd that we should have no dock capable of receiving a first-class vessel without guns, stores, and even machinery being removed. It is true that Lord C. PAGET maintains that the Royal Oak and the Resistance could both go into the present Dock yard Creek, bat this may turn out to be another of the noble lord'a " mistakes." The opinions of engineers sent out by the Admiralty aro worth about as much as those of first-rate advocates specially retained on one side. They are certainly not to ba sot against men like Admiral CODRING pis a nd Admiral MARTIN, who have the require ments of the service iu view, and being on the spot can surely decide upon the natural capacities of the sites proposed. As Sir Scam :PAKINGTON very truly said, it is not an engineer's question but an Admiralty question, concerning the come nienee of the British fleet. It seems that in 1800 the Admiralty entered int, an arrangement with the Maltese authorities by which they acquired a large creek in the vicinity of the dockyard, agree ing to deepen the Mersa for the use of 4he commer cial 6 hiPPiug. Part of this arrangemer t was that NOM was called the north-west basin. eheuld be constructed with a depth of 12 feet for the use of the commercial shipping. But it will be necessary in order to get access to the dock to shipping. Sub sequently the Admiralty adopted the present extravagant scheme—that a first-class dock, capable of accommodating the Warrior, should be cone structed on the inner side of the north-west basin. But to get access to this dock, it becomes neces sary to deepen the basin from :2 to 30 feet, which, of course, will entail heavy expense. It is, too, to be at right angles with the basin, so that a ship in entering it will have to turn nearly round, thus producing a confusion that may be better imagined than described, when a heavy ship some hundreds of feet in length is sent amongst the crowded mer chant shipping. The rock is full of fissures and flaws, thereby entailing the expense of facing the dock with masonry, and rendering the Admiralty esti mate of £50,000 for deepening the basin and con structing the dock simply ridiculous. There is no detailed plan or estimate for the scheme produ cible, and unless it is looked to we shall probably have a second edition of the affair at ,Alderney, where the original estimates have been already exceeded by a very large amount. The additional vote was absolutely necessary if we did not wish the whole of the previous outlay to be thrown away. And after all that has been done there it is more than questionable it any good has been effected at all. Holyhead, which might have been made a splendid harbour, has had its utility greatly im paired by its limited extent. We recently had an instance of this when the Prince Consort was com pelled to run over to the Irish coast, being afraid to risk entering Holyhead. Portland, which is the best we have yet constructed, would have been far more of had the southern arm of the breakwater been carried out from a point further down the island, and a larger space enclosed; ena bling ships to lie under the shelter of the island itself, and not as at present be exposed to the force of the south westerly wind blowing across the Chesil Bank. The French greatly eclipse us in these matters, not from superior engineering capa city, but from the more liberal and enlightened views of their governing authorities. The public had better be warned by past experience of Admiralty bungling, and inquire into this Malta project a little more closely, If the Government have committed themselves to the Maltese autho rities they had better pay for their mistake and let the matter end there. It would be far cheaper and better than undertaking a work of such cost and importance, under such serious drawbacks, when the French Creek offering so many superior advan tages is lying at their disposal. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1864. Lord SALISBURY last night very properly called a ten tion to the convict system. He moved fur a return of the " number of convicts under penal servitude confined in gaols other than Government prisons in 1862 and 1863 ;" also what steps had been taken to carry out the reconmendations of the Commission on Penal Servitude. This last was a very necessary item in the demand, since nothing is more common than for a Government to put off inquiry and com plaint by instituting a commission, and then not to attend to the recommendations that are given, Lord CARNARVON made some observations on the subject, and truly characterised it as a "monstrous anomaly" in English justice that heavier offences often meet higher punishments, and vice versa. It is well known that a short period at a county gaol is more stringent than some years of penal servitude. The prisoners invariably prefer the Government part of the affair to the ordinary gaols. Lord CAR NARYON'S remarks on this subject are always well worthy of attention, both from his lordship having studied the case in all its bearings, and also for the enlightened views which he entertains regarding the question. He quoted a report which proved that on one occasion the convicts in one prison were attacked by some disease, and it was the opinion of medical men that it arose chiefly from the rich ness of their food. "In consequence of this the ox-head cheeks were withheld from the soup, and the men's health improved." This is perfectly ridiculous, and it is quite out of character that such luxuries should be provided for men under sentence of punishment for the commission of heinous offences. It is actually holding out an encouragement to lazy and selfish men to get into a place of this sort, where their appetites may be pampered and their idleness indulged. The more publicity that is given to these facts, the better it will be for the public service, and then, perhaps, the authorities will be shamed out of their persistence in improper indulgences to the convicts. This false system of palliation re sults in the worse effects, both for the men them selves and the society amongst which, they are placed long before their original term is expired. It is not a fair test of conduct either to judge of them by their behaviour during their confinement, when they are thus pampered and coddled. It is not likely that they will be tempted to rebel against such mild treatment, or become restless and unman ageable when humoured to the last degree, and every possible device is resorted to, to keep them quiet and satisfied. If sterner plans were adopted and more vigorous discipline enforced, then a better notion might be formed of the effect which the penal servitude was bearing on their characters. As it is, we have the best grounds for asserting that the men are made worse during their period of detention, and come out with re unwed vigour to prosecute their nefarious under takings, Of course thero are notable exceptions, but as a rule it will be found that very little progress, if any, is made in the reformation of our criminal population. Lord CARNARYON put the case very forcibly, when he said that to be successful, either one plan or another ought to be adopted, and that the Home Secretary was trying too much to take "a scrap of one system and a scrap of another, until the whole system adopted became incomprehensible and remarkable." There is great truth in this, and it would be well if more heed was paid to this suggestion. Either to adopt the practice of tickets•of-leave, coupled with police supervision, or else to throw the system overboard, and attempt another, is the advice tendered by Lord CARNARVON, and it certainly seems to be sound. It is evident that what is wanted imperatively at present is a radical change in our system of penal servitude ; and the question is whether the temporising efforts and feeble legislation which is now in vogue will bo capable of effecting the desirable and most necessary alteration. There is too much patching up of difficulties, and two much dawdling and hesitation in all the legislation that is brought forward on the subject, and it is most urgent that now the case is again one of the chief social dis cussions of the day, some lasting and excel lent arrangements bo made, or else all this bicker ing and debate will result in grievous harm, and be worse in the end than if matters had rested in statu quo. The criminals will exult at the ineffi cacy of our efforts to control them, and thus an ad ditional evil trill have been effected. This is the proper time for those who have objections to state them, and for those who have suggestions to make to bring them forward, or clrie the opportunity will be lost. The Government are, doubtless, animated with the best intentions, but they are too timid in the measures they adopt. They had better come forward boldly, and with a strong hand and vigorous will put down the growing evil that threatens to overpower tho order and morality of our commu nity. As Lord GREY observed, it is much to be deplored that we should have a system of penal discipline which does nothing to render more effec tive the punishment previously apportioned to cri minals, and subject the country to the accumulated numbers of discharged convicts. Opening of the British Museum, (et c„ on Sundays. DEPUTATION TO LORD PALMERSTON. (THIS DAY.) This morning a very numerous deputation from the trades of the metropolis had an interview with Lord Pal merston at Cambridge-house , Piccadilly, for the purpose of urging upon his lordship the propriety of opening the British Museum, National Gallery, &c., on Suuday after. nouns. The members of the deputation having been introduced, Mr. WHITE stated the object of the present deputation, and impressed upon his lordship the great benefit that would result both morally and socially to the working classes if the noble institutions alluded to were open on Sunday. The only attraction on Sunday open to the work ing man, unless he undertook a journey some consider able distance from his home, was the public house, and it was of the greatest importance that something more elevating should be placed within his reach. The Sheepshanks collection had been accepted by the nation with the knowledge that one of the chief inducements which led to its presentation, viz., its being open on the Sunday, was as distant as ever. Several of the deputies present then addressed his lord ship. Some of them remarked on the encouragement in other countries to the working class to study art—whilst those in England were only enabled to do so at a sacrifice of a day's wages. HIS LORDSHIP, in reply, said h 3 believed the produc tions of the Englishman quite equal to that of the foreigner. With respect to the object of the deputation, he believed his opinions were pretty well known—(hear, hear)—but he must remind them that there was a very strong feeling the other way. He thought the most prudent course to pursue at present was to remain passive until public opinion was brought round to the object in view, and in the meantime he advised them to inculcate their opinions, and thus hasten on the accomplishment of their desire. Mr. J. KENNY reminded his lordship that it was not a new ccurse they were then pursuing. There were kindred institutions to the British Museum already open on Sundays, and all they desired was that the Government should go on and open others nearer home. The National Gallery of Ire land, whichhad been throws open on Sundays, testified to the good results certain to follow the opening of the Museum and National Gallery on Sundays to the working classes of England. Having thanked Ws lordship for the interview, the depu tation withdrew. Public Execurdons, TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. SIR, —My recent perusal in Thi Sun of the account of the execution of the five pirates at liewgate—a sight which, 1 suppose, has not been witnessed since the memorable execution of Thistlewood and the Cato-street conspirators in the year 1820, when I believe Six men were hanged at Newgate—hal reminded me of mydeseription of a London execution—when only ono man vas hanged—in the year 1856, and which I described in my recent book, "Curiosi ties of Occult Literature," reviewed in The Sun Bth Sep tember last. In that book I alluied to that interesting work, " Boswell's Life of Johnson," where the great moralist regretted the recent removal of mentions from Tyburn Gate to the Old Bailey. It is singular that the plan of hanging at the Old Bailey should have survived even the removal of Smithfield Market I On the 23d June, 1784-8 3 years since, less four months —Boswell saw fifteen men hanged in that same place— part of a batch of 21 persons sentenced to death. " They came upon the scaffold a little Wore seven o'clock; the platform dropped about a quarter before eight, and at the same moment they were all launched into eternity. The windows and roofs of the houses were crowded, and many thousands of people were assembled in the Old Bailey." Then, as on Monday, the 22d inst,. although the ribaldry, coarse language, and general character of King Mob of 1781 and of 1861 may be identical, it is at least satisfactory to know that the prison discipline of Newgate has been improved, and that such a rare popular spectacle in all human probability will never again occur in London. — Yours, obediently. Tau AUTHOR OF "CURIOSITIES OF OCCULT LITERATURE." 23d February, 1661. " JOHN IN A MESS "—Surely nothing can well be funnier, or more aptly to the purpose, than Tenniel's cartoon in the new number of Punch, published this afternoon :—" Mrs. Britannia—Put down that Pen directly, you troublesome boy. A nice mess you have got yourself into !" It is a comic sketch coming so exactly " pat "to the occasion—with a very aplomb of truthfulness, amounting to pictorial wit —that it forms a worthy companion cartoon to that famous one years and years ego in Punch, representing Mrs. Peel wringing her hands at the plight of Master James Graham (after the latter had been rolling in the mud and making dirt pies) with a—" Drat that boy, he's always in a mess!" NATIONAL GRANTS FOR STATUARY. - The Nelson Column has, since 1858, been honoured with an aggregate of grants amounting to £26,800. In 1854, the statue of Charles 1., at Charing Cross, cost £1,000; in the same year, £2,500 was granted for royal monuments in Westminster Abbey. Iu 1842, an equestrian statue of George IV. it entered for £6,301; and we find the pedestal of Baron Maroehetti!s Richard Ccour-de-Lion cost £1,650. In the three years 1843-45, a total of £1,500 was paid for monuments to Lords Exmouth and De Saumaurcz, and Sir Sidney Smith. This grant is humorously placed under the head of Educa tion. Science, and Art.' In 1858, £20,000 was voted for a statue of the Duke of Wellington ; the Havelock statue at Woolwich is charged at £'2,152; and on the now lonely shore of Scutari a noble monument has been placed, which is said to have cost £17,500. For Sir John Franklin a statue has been raised, which in 1E55 cost the modest sum of £BOO, and again in 1863 a similar amount,—Ghambcrs' s Journal, New and Improved Series. THE PROCESS OF SCHISM once begun, an in definite multiplication of sects follows, until we arrive at the ultimate result in the fallowing list of deno minations taken from the American Census :—" Democratic Gospel, Ebenezer Socialists, New-lights, Tunkers, Supera lists, Cosmopolites, Free Enquirers, Children of Peace, Inspired Church, Pathonites, Believers in God, Perfection ists, Spiritualists, I.Tniversalists, Puritans, Hopkinsonians, Moderate Calvinists, Strict Calvinists, Destructionists, Restorationists, Denials of Original Sin (I' Pelagians), Pre existents, Sand-hillers, Soul-sleepers, Come-outers, Lutherans, Churchmen, Congregationalists, Hardshells, Roman Catholics, Rationalists, Methodists, Christians (denying the Trinity), Quakers, Unitarians, Moravian, German Reformed, Dutch Reformed, Jews, Swedenbor gians, Socinians, Shakers, Independents, Methodists,Epis copalians, North Episcopalians, South Episcopalians, Seventh-day Baptists, Campbellite Baptists, Freewill Baptists, Ironside Baptists, Six-principle Baptists, North Presbyterians (Anti -Slavery), South Presbyterians (Pro- Slavery), Old School Presbyterians, New School Presby terians, Cumberland Presbyterians, Associate Presby terians, Reformed Presbyterians, Associate Reformed Presbyterians." LITERARY NEWS.—The following new books are announced by Mr. Bentley :—The third and fourth volumes of the " Dean of Chichester's Lives of the Arch bishops of Canterbury," bring the history down to the Re formation. " Memoirs of a Minister of State," by M. Gaizot, from the year 1840. A third edition of the Rev. T. Bontell's " Heraldry : Historical and Popular," with 850 illustrations, of which work two large editions were absorbed in one year. " Viscountess Strangford's Eastern Shores of the Adriatic," with chromo-lithograph illustrations and photographs. " Legends of Iceland," translated by George E. J. Powell and Eniker Magnusson, profusely illustrated by Zweeker, &c. "In Spain : a Narrative by Hans Chris tian Andersen, the Danish Poet, of his Wanderings in the Peninsula, in 1863," in one volume. " A Century of Anec dotes, from 1750 to 1850," by John Timbs ; and "St. Petersburg and Warsaw : stirring scenes witnessed during a residence. in Russia and Poland, during 1863-64," in one volume, with portraits of Mouravieff and the Grand Duchess Constantine and her family. Of new novels, among the most popular of the season are—" Bella Donna," " Wylder's Hand," by the author of " The House by the Churchyard ; " Moadowleigh," by the author of " The Ladies of Bever Hollow;" " The Shadow of Ashlydyat," by the author of " East Lynne ;" and " Old Court," by the author of " Whitefriars." SITE OF ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.—Tho question between the Corporation of London and the Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital is now directly raised by the filing, yesterday, of a bill in Chancery by the Governors against the Corporation of London, joinly with Mr. Scott, the Chamberlain, to restrain the corporation from using a cer tain retainer to the City Solicitor, sealed by the corporation, and from affixing the hospital seal to any instruments with out the previous c3nsent of the governors. This proceed ing, involves the whole question of the power of the Corpo ration to interfere in their corporate capacity in the matter of the future site of this invaluable charity. Tho scaling of the retainer without the intervention of the donation governors is said to have been done at the suggestion of the Attorney- Gen era . A NEW AND COAIPLETE.EDITION OF THE WORKS OF THE LATE .Ent B. C. Buonin will shortly bo pub lished by the Messrs, Longman, It will be edited by Dr Charles Hawkins, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LUEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (Per the America.) NEW YORK, FEB. 12 (Evening). Newbern advises to the 7th inst. report the Con federates to be again threatening the Federal com munications around Newbern. They have an iron clad vessel at Kingston which will cooperate in their hostile movement. The Richmond papers of the sth report that Gen. Sherman's whole force advanced from Vicks burg across by the Black River, from whence it is supposed ho will advance to Meriden and unite with a cavalry force moving along the line of the Mississippi, and an infantry force advancing from Natchez. Sherman's movement is said to be made in order to flank Johnston and Hardee in Alabama and Georgia, rather than to attack Mobile. The Confederates are still in force at Dalston, Georgia. Admiral Porter is fitting out a formidable fleet on the Mississippi. General Meade made a speech at Philadelphia, stating that since March, 1861, 100,000 men of the Potomac army have been killed and wounded. The German Republicans of New Jersey de clare in favour of Butler, Freemont, or any other Radical candidate for the Presidency, who will guarantee an emancipation and confiscation policy. The Halifax Admiralty Court has restored the Chesapeake and her cargo to the owners on the payment of the legal expenses. The City of Washington, the City of Cork, the China, and the Olympus have arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, NEW YORK. FEB. 12th, Evening. Money extremely easy at 6to 7 per cent. Gold 69 !per cent. premium. Exchange on London, 1741. Exchange on Paris, 3 . 20*. Stocks quiet. New York Centrals, 134. Illinois, 131. Erie, 1121. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 82c. Flour and wheat declining. Corn quiet. Provisions a good enquiry. Coffee firm and advancing. Sugar and molasses steady. Petroleum very firm ; crude, 29-1 to 31i, refined, 45 to 47. NEW YORK, FEB. 13 (Morning). A large Federal expedition, with three gunboats, left Port Royal on the sth inst. and landed at Jack sonville, Florida, on the Bth, from which place it was reported they would proceed to Tallahassee. General Gilmore left Port Royal on the 7th to join this expedition. Admiral Dahlgren has left Charleston in the flag ship for St. John's, Florida. The British gunboat Petrel arrived at Charleston on the sth, wishing to communicate with the British Consul at Savannah. Admiral Dahlgren refused permission, and the Petrel put to sea. It is said that the Petrel brought despatches for the Confo rate Secretary Benjamin. Oa the night of the 2d a large steamer entered Charleston harbour, unobserved by the Federal fleet, and was not discovered until the morning of the 3d, when she had run aground and was landing her cargo under the guns of Fort Moultrie. The Federal batteries opened on her and shortly after wards she sank. The Conscription Bill has passed Congress. Slaves between the ages of 14 and 45 are liable to be drafted ; loyal owners to be compensated. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold 591 per cent. premium. A large advance taken place in Federal Securities. United States Coupons Sixes are now quoted 110. The America brings 35 bags of mails, 123 passen gers, 176,875 dole. in specie for England, 141,223 dole. for France, 500 dole. for Bremen, and 1,000 tons of cargo. THE WAR IN SCHLESWIG. England has invited the German Federation and the Powers which signed the 1852 Treaty to a Con. ference in London. No suspension of arms. General Manteuffel is gone to Vienna about Intland affairs. VIENNA, FEB. 23. The Conferences proposed by England for the settlement of the question relative to the German Duchies have been accepted by Austria and Prussia. Orders will be issued not to advance further into Jutland. COPENHAGEN, FEB. 23, 8.50 P.M. The Government has published the following official communication : Twelve Austrian war vessels have been ordered to the Mediterranean and the English Channel to cruise in search of Danish ships. The Secretaries of the Danish Legations at Berlin and Vienna have been recalled. The Secretary of the Austrian Legation at Copen hagen has already left. The authorities of Hamburg have seized the money in the Danish post-office in that city: Reported Concentration of Prussian Troops on the Polish Frontier. BRESLAU, FEB. 23 (Evening.) A rumour that 60,000 Prussian troops will be concentrated on the frontier of the kiogdom of Poland. SPAIN. MADRID, FEB. 23. A Bill for a new electoral law has been brongh forward in the Cortes. FRANCE. PARIS, FEB. 22 (Morning). The Constitutionnel of to-day, in an article signed by I\l. Limayrac, expresses regret that the Dano-German conflict has been aggravated by an invasion of Jutland. The writer continues—" England has requested explanations from the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin. The replies may be ingenious, but they cannot be entirely satisfactory. Nothing proves, however, that England will not be contented with them." BOURSE, Feb. 23.—The market has not been very animated, but the business done shows an improve ment on yesterday's quotations. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66f. 55c. Mobilier have ad vanced to 1,060 f. Railway Market quiet, but firm. The market closed as f of : 41 por Cents. 95 70 Italian Loan 6B Do. end month.... -- Do. end month — 3 per C e nts ...... 66 6 0 New ditto — Do. end month.... 66 55 Do. end mouth.: — Credit M0bi1ier....1065 --Russian Do, end m0nth.....1070 Austrian Bank Shares ...... 3290 Spanish Threes 5l Credit Fancier .... 1265 Rome Debt - ,_ Roman .......... Deferred RAILWAYS. Casb. Account. Orleani 1003 75 .. 1005 Northern .... 952 50 .. 955 Now ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 942 50 .. 937 50 New ditto BB7 50 .. Southern 661 25 .. 665 Western ...... Eastern Ssrilinipn. , 382 50 .. 377 50 AuntriPn Lou.b .1 , 1 North of Spain Saragossa 587 50 .. 586 25 Ditto to Barcelona L I R E. For Better for TVorse : A Romance of the Affec tions. Edited by Edmund Yates. John Max well and Co., Fleet-street. The story commences with a consultation between Margaret, and Ralph Atherton, the eldest son and daughter of the lately deceased Dean of Wylminster, relative to their own future prospects, and also as to the means by which they are to secure the sup port of a stepmother and the children of the second marriage. Their father has left but trifling means at their disposal, and his wife being rather a silly and frivolous person, he particularly recommends the care of his family to his eldest daughter Margaret, when dying. She proposes to de vote he: entire energies to fulfil his intentions and becomes a parish schoolmistress, to enable her to furnish his annual allowance to the youngest half-brother, a midshipman, without which he can not continue in the navy. Her talents arc so great, and the arrangement of the school so perfect, that she acquires the friendship of the clergyman of the parish, and attracts the attention of the neighbour ing gentry, who are not only anxious to adopt her system, but desirous of securing her services for themselves. Meantime the youngest sister of the family, Ethelind, is invited on a visit to Lady Repworth's and there meets Sir Philip Leigh, a man of large fortune and ancient lineage, who falls desperately in love with her, and subsequently marries her in opposition to the advice of his mother, and the sneers of his sisters, two rather fast young ladies, who consider Ethelind as far beneath his and their social position. Piqued by their contempt for his wife's family, Sir Philip Leigh determines that she shall hold no communication with them after her marriage. And here commences poor Ethe linn's troubles. RalphAtherton has become a clergy man, and accepts a curacy in the parish of Reden ham, of which Sir Philip Leigh is the sole proprie tor. The titie and estates have come to him by the death of his cousin, who was killed by accident, and the family place has been uninhabited for many years; but it is now fitted up for the reception of the bride and bridegroom. Until then Ralph Ather ton was ignorant of Ethelind's marriage with his parishioner, and learning that Sir Philip has treated the other members of his family with great discour tesy, he absents himself from the public reception. While Sir Philip, learning who he is, supposes he has got himself appointed to the parish for the pur pose of forcing his acquaintance on him, he be comes furious, and acting under his imperative injunctions Ethelind is ebliged publicly to " cut" her brother and family in the church on Sunday. After such an insult, although very poor, having resigned a fellowship to marry a girl with out fortune, Ralph throws up his curacy, and goes elsewhere. Ultimately he inherits a large fortune from a relative. After many bickorings, arising chiefly from the interference of his mother and sisters, Sir Philip, now become Lord Redenham, separates from his wife. But they are again recon ciled by the good offices of Lord Redcar, aparticular friend, who marries Grace Atherton, and of Mar garet, now estimated at her just worth by Lord Redenham. At his house she meets Captain Vivyan, a former lover, who had jilted her, but he now renews his suit, and they are married, se all ends happily for all parties. " For Better for Worse" is a truly moral book, which may with safety and even advantage be placed in youthful hands, for it instructs as well as amuses, thus ful filling what ought to be the object even of a romance. The incidents aro all quite natural, although the interest never flags, and there is not one expression, from beginning to end, which could give umbrage to the most delicate mind. --- PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 23. THE STEAM RAMS AT BIRKENHEAD. Motion made and question put, " That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this house copies of all correspondence between the various departments of her Majesty's Government, or officers in her Majesty's service, and Messrs. Laird Brothers, relating to the two ironclad vessels, El Tousson and El Monassia, building by that firm, and seized by order of her Majesty's Government; and of any papers or correspondence that have passed between her Majesty's Government and the Government of the United States, or their representative, Mr. Adams, relating to the said vessels," The house divided—Ayes, 163; Noes, 178. AYES -153. Adderley, C. B. Graham, Lord Win. Northcote, Sir S. H. Addington, Hon.W. Greaves, Edward .Packe, C. Mille, 11. J. Greenall, G. Pakington, Sir J. S. Buttelot, Col. Grey dcWilton,Lord Parker, Major W. Bathurst, A. A. Grogan, Sir E. Peel, Gen. Beach, W. W. Ha'Murton, T. C. Pevensey, Viscount Bective, Earl of Hamilton, Lord C. Powell, P. S. Beecroft, G. S. Hardy, Gathorne Repton, G. W. J. Benyon, R. *Harvey, li. B. Ridley, Sir M. W. Bernard, Col. Hassard, M. D. Roebuck, J. A. Bernard, Thos. T. Hay, Sir J. Rogers, John J. Blake, J. A. lleathcote, Sir W. Rolt, J. Bovill, Win. Henniker, Lord Rowley, Hon. R. T. Bramley-Moore, J. Hill, Hon. R. Sclater-Booth, G. Bramston, T. W. Hodgson, R. Selwyn, C. J. Bridges, Sir B. Hopwood, J. T. Smith, Abel Bruce, C. L. C. Humphery, W. Smith, S. G. Bruce, Sir H. Hunt, G. W. Smollett, P. Burghley, Lord Ingestre, Viscount Somes, Joseph Cairns, Sir 11. Jervis, Captain Stanhope, J. B. Cartwright, Col. Jolliffe, 11. Stanhope, Lord Cecil, Lord R. Kekewich, S. Stanley, Lord Chapman, J. Knatchbull, W. Stewart, Sir M. R. Clifton, Sir R. Knox, Col. Stuart, Lt.-Col. W. Close, M. C. Lacon, Sir E. Stracey, Sir 11. Cobbold, John C. Laird, J. Sturt, Lt.-Col. N. Cole, Hon. H. Langton, W. G. Sullivan, M. Collins, T. Leader, N. Talbot, Hon. W. C. Cubitt, George Lecke, Sir H. Taylor, Colonel Curzon, Viscount Lennox, Lord G. G. Ihynne, Lord E. Dawson, R. P. Lennox, Lord H. G. Thynne, Lord H. Dickson, Col. Lindsay, W. S. Tollernache, J. H. Disraeli, Benjamin Long - field, Robert Tottenham,Lt.-Col. Drax, J. E. Lovaine, Lord Trefusis, lion. C. H. Du Cane, C. Lyall, G. Turner, C. Dunne, Col. Lygon, Hon. F. Vance, John Du Fre, C. Macaulay, K. Verner, E. W. Edwards, C o l. Macdonogh, F. Vyse, Col. Egerton, A. F. MacEvoy, E. Walcott, Adm. J. E. Egerton, E. C. Malcolm, J. W. Walker, James R. Pane, Col. Malins, R. Walpole, S. H. Farquhar, Sir M. Manners, Lord J. Walsh, Sir J. B. Fellowes, Edward Maxwell, Col. Watlingtcn, J. Ferrand, W. Mitford, W. T. Welby, W. E. Fleming, T. W. Montagu, Lord R. Wyndham, Hon. H, Forester, Gen. Montgomery, Sir G. Wyndham, Hon. I'. Fraser, Sir W. A. Morritt, W. Wynn, C. W. W. Galway, Viscount Mowbray, Rt. Ha. J. Yorke, Hon. E. Gard, R. S. Mure, David - Yorke, J. R. George, John Naas, Lord TELLERS. Gilpin, Colonel Noel, G. J. Horsiali, T. B. Gore, J. H. O. North, Col. Fitzgerald, W. S. NOES —l7B. Angerstein, W. Forster, W. E. Neate, C. Annesley, Col. 11. Foster, W. 0. North, F. Antrobus, E. Fortescue, Hon. F. O'Brien, Sir P. Aytoun. if. S. Fortescue, C. S. O'Hagan, T. Bagwell, J. Garin, Major Paget, C. Baines, E. Gibson. T. M. Paget, Lord A. Baring, H. B. Gilpin, C. Paget, Lord C. E. Baring, Sir F. Gladstone, W. E. Palmer, Sir R. Baring, Thomas Glyn, G. G. Paxton, Sir J. Baring, Thos. Geo. Goldsmid, Sir F. Pease, H. Barnes, T. Goschen, G. J. Peel, Sir R. Bass, M. T. Gower, G. W. L. Peel, F. Baxter, W. E. Greene, J. Peel, J. Bazley, Thomas • Gregson, S. Peto, Sir M. Beale, Samuel Grenfell, H. R. - Pilkington, James Beaumont, W. B. Grey, Sir G. Pinney, Col. Beaumont,Somerset Grosvenor, Earl Pollard Urquhart W Bellew, R. M. Hadfield, Geo. Ponsonby, A. Berkeley, C. • Handley, John Potter, B. Black, Adam Hardcastle, Jos. A. Powell, J. Blencowe, J. G. Harting,ton,Marquis Pritchard, John Bonham-Carter, J. *Harvey, R. B. Proby, Lord G. L. Bouverie, E. I'. , Henderson, J. Ricardo, 0. Bruce, H. A. Henley, Lord Robartes, T. J. A. Buchanan, W. Herbert, 11. A. Russell, Hastings Buller, Sir A. Ilibbert, J. T. Russell, A. J. E. Bury, Viscount liodgkinson, G. Salomons,Aiderman Butt, Isaac Hodgson, K. Scholeileid, W. Buxton, C. Howard, lion. C. Seely, C. Caird, James Hutt. W. Seymour, Denby Calthorpe, F. H. Ingham, R. Seymour, A Cardwell, Main. E. Jackson, W. Shelley, Sir J. V. Carnegie,Hn. C. Johnstone, Sir J. Sheridan, R. B. Castlerosse, Vist. Kershaw, J. Smith, J. B. Clay, James King, Hon. P. Smith, M. T. Clifford, C. C. Kinglake, A. W. Smith, Augustus Cobbett, J. M. Kinnaird, lion. A. Smith, J. A. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Knatchbull-Hugess Stacpoole, W. Collier, Sir R. P. Layard, A. H. Stausfeld, J. Colthurst, Sir G. Langton, W. 11. G. Tollemache, Hon.F. Cox, W. Lanigan, J. Tracy, Hon. C. Craufurd, E. H. J. Lawson, W. Turner, J. A. Crawford, R. W. Leatham, E. Tynte, Col. K. Crossley, Sir F. Lefevre, G. J. S. Vane, Lord H. G. Dalglish, Robert Lee, W. Verney, Sir Harry Davie, Col. F. Levinge, Sir R.G.A. V ernon, H. Denman, G. I.loyd, - T. Villiers, lit. Hon. C. Dillwyn, Lewis L. Locke, John Warner, Edward Dodson, John G. Lowe, lit. Hon. R. Watkins, Ccl. L. Duff, M. E. Mackie, J. Western, S. Duff, R. Mackinnon, W.(Ly.)lVesthead, J. Duke, Sir James Marjoribanks, D. C. Whitbread, S. Dundas, Frederick Marshall, W. White, Jas. Dundas, Sir David Martin, J. White, L. I I ,) 1 i u fi n e l o l d p , , VAiscount I‘ M ra er ti r l y e ', so J l :L A e . s Wood, Sir C. Wyld, James Evans, T. W. Mildmay, 11. Ewart, William Mills, J. R. Finch, C. W. Moncreiff, J. Foley, IL W. Morris, D. Forster, Charles D. Morrison, W. TELLERM, Brand, 11. B. Dunbar, Sir Wm. --- ** Oddly enough, it will be seen from the foregoing Division List, copied into our columns exactly as it is given in the Parliamentary Papers —.that Mr. Robert Bateson Harvey appears both in the majority and in the minority, as though ho were " two gentlemen in one," according to Mrs. Malaprop. " TIIE CLEANNINGS," By MRS. WOOD, has been translated into French by Madame Abrio-Ericountre. AIRS. WILKINS, WIDOW OF THE LATE SERGEANT WILEINs, is pl :t yi ng a successful engagement at Wall Teatre, New York. A VERITABLE CENTENARIAN.—An authentic case 0 . ! "aged 112," corl i lled by b apt i sma l reg i s t er L oo k of Lreseot Church, stating that the old lady was born on tha 2 4th of Nay, 1751. - or, iiitlfgr. RER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Feb. 2 3 ' Her Majesty the Queen, attended by the Hoc, Mrs. Bruce and Lieutenant-General the II°n• Grey, went up to London this morning and honoured the Countess of Elgin with a visit. The Queen returned after wards to Windsor Castle' wales Return•of the Prince and Princess of from St. LeouardS, Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin ce° of Wales concluded their - visit to St. Leopards s'; terday and arrived in London accompanied bY t , , a ti peci b si e infant prince. The journey was made by train on the South-Eastern Railway, 8 0(1 in Ti t s , handsome state carriage belonging to the comP a " ci i Their Royal Highnesses left Starkey's 11 ` 35 ,1, Victoria Hotel about half-past eleven, attended Lu the Hon. Mrs. E. Coke, Lie ntenant-General lin°lll 4 ' and Major Teesdale, and on arriving at the Leonards station of the South-Eastern Corallinld' were received by the Mayor of St. Leonards th Hastings, who was accompanied by sOnle o f _aldermen and the town clerk, and on the a r " e , the South-Eastern Company by Captain War:i one of the directors, Mr. C. W. Eborall, the genet manager, and Mr. J.P. Knight, the trafae suPe tendent; ag reeab l o e f The weather at Hastings afforded an contrast to that prevailing in London at the tic ° s departure, for while in the metropolis 5 11 ° W falling heavily, and the atmosphere wag cold 613 ( 1 gloomy, at St. Leonards there was a br i g h t ! „ 61 , 3 `r clear sky, and the sun shed a genial war m tu sea and land. The train left the station at 11.40, under the eau; trol of Mr. Knight (who rode on the lecomoticeict and after a quick run Tunbridge-wells was reseoeo at 12.30. No other stoppage was made, a nd , t % O l don-bridge station was slowly passed at 1.41 ' the train drew up at one of the arrival pla tialus -pie Charing-cross terminus at 1.45, before wh ich tbi ad the broad and lengthy pavement of the platform been covered with scarlet cluth, and every P reP t r ad tion for the reception of the royal passel 3 g erB P er. been made by Mr. W. Cockburn, the station OP intendant. e w a les As soon as the train stopped, the Prince 0 ' ", conducted the Princess of Wales to her orr'ilivat.. A small group of ladies and gentlemen on the P' 0 form silently saluted the prince and Prilacesso their royal highnesses crossed the platfor m; b n ot group of workpeople who had assembled nenl4o• content with this undemonstrative method of 6 P o h e a, ing their respect for their future king and c hi : c rteti st sort, gave utterance to a loud and heartyu which the prince and princess seemed to be i n , she a amused. The cheering was by no means dirnirli f e w when the nurse was seen to leave the train a but seconds afterwards bearing the infant Pri nce ' was renewed with at least equal heartiness' f t he As the train drew up quite in the interior station, and close to the back of the hotel build o f at the Strand entrance, there was but a dis tal : e lled some GO or 70 yards to be traversed, over a g ra rou gh roadway, before the royal carriages pas sed tbboild• a pair of gates in the hoarding fronting tb e hoes ses ing, and in a few minutes their royal big ' o vgh were safe in their London residence of A131.113g House. g Od e The train in which the prince and e" alit 1 princ was the first passenger train which has b r° ;. o l travellers literally up to the Strand; their 1-3;0. highnesses may therefore be said to have,il3,Bthe rated the opening of the line, and to have beg this first to prove the admirable convenie nce whie'frota new terminus will offer to passengers to o r the West-end of London. I v a 11119 , It is understood that the Princess of - le . ir derived much benefit from the invigoratieg St. Leonards ; and it must be stated to th e crial of the inhabitants of the two towns that the n s 9 visitors have suffered less annoyance by P; gav e following them than at any other place tile; visited. 01 (1cr The Princess of Wales has left several liberal nations for the local charities. His royal 114 p ro' has also express©d personally to Mr. StarkeYor'ecir prietor of the Royal Victoria Hot el, his ePtraiisfr tion of the attention shown him at that es :,, - a t hi s ment. The visitors' book also int i ma ted fec tlf royal highness and the princess were Per satisfied." t ecosr al The inhabitants of Hastings and si "" 1 have been gratified to learn that the , ir i llf ts 6 ; s a to a tors have, through General Knollys, e Wi re the mayor "the satisfaction they hav e eP e h r t° llll A at all the arrangements connected wit u — e s ov" wherein his royal highness and the Pricee(l'veut." been concerned. Their royal highne ss te cist General Knollys continues) agreeable recollection of their visit, and eve t r o lvo s ' i str A ong interest in the prosperity of the t vl° ir portion of the household, with thei r r°f r d Leon a highnesses, horses and carriages, left Ot• o f f' 11 :: by special train at 1,38 p.m. in alarg e tions an Deacon, superintendent, St. Leopards sta r arrived in London at about a quarter t° 11 will each reta,.. awl a Her Royal Highness the Duchess of i l ' cob.:itdgo e h m o o no d ur n ed toh t fa h tc o sah C me o b u hr n iad t s e g s ge s ( Dowager) Jersey 11 i' 1 : 1 . 1 i'l° of Duchess n ay to o t wleiallat the countess's house in Berkeley - the afford many tr r he e ea m tol a yo i o n iom e remained Fie asrsno, countess's ierivdhsi t e h arai Pled:lll:jes : His Highness the Prince Sulk° wski, u"„fosifici the Prince Auguste Salkowski, have left the •''' t Hotel, li Jermyn-street, on their return to Paris. no g 0 ' The Duchess of Somerset's party this eve n ot il the duke's official residence at the Adnairall dance," as annnounced, but a " reception?' ta iaed a f t nHeThera Hanoverian lastoEv e a er r vi l aenn a i nnegdh his riCountesssged,A Excellency d'Affaires i l r t e us thee saenvadr ei cual:toeicotc4looo:lotiodttacl4: d th in e o E f arl Granville, the Earl of Litchfield, the eland t‘ll til° fj ,: e i. Beesborough, Lord and Lady Harry Rode)7.6'ric,,-,, place. Murchison , l he C M o r tln E te v s: t l a t t u & ss c e . Miss Primrose, the Hon. Lionel Ashley, Sir caeth.-°,, rf ir Friday next. :i t hl4 lii' d The Right Hon, the Speaker will --(,) s a teli': a 118:V11111 ehiravre6:ll"ollYeeellil rt'rfl °.." liamentary Levees on Wednesday the 2d c4 l , t o re. - 11 Wednesday, the 9th of March, a't 10 ol° - "I ter dress. , westfoi,l)9-de The Marquis and Marchioness ot ' enor S°-de and Lady Theodora Grosvenor arrived at Ol' ev , i - i i ire. _,, - ,9 on Saturday evening from Eaton Hall, el l ; s Le tt"o". noble marquis and marchioness leave ONO ° w ill re t° next for Motcombe House, Dorset, where tIOY ha ve 0 until after Easter. .eil I lit/ an until The Countess (Frances) Waldegraye " o icleP e° evening party this evening at the family r st. lO r Carlton gardens. o r Ifte Vi scou nt Bangor has left Claridge 0 lor f Leonards-on , Sea , I jote Lord Abercromby ha s left Claridgecn , < ft° Airthrey Castle, Stirling. t e raei ' Lord Crewe arrived in town len 've d 6 Crewe Hall, Cheshire, for the 500011. l e y reCein l'er Lord and Lord and Lady Stao.,t, is P' ) select party at dinner last evening, at their bc'" •0 street, Piccadilly. Lord and Lady Howard de Walden article d ' t o t own yesterday from a tour of visits. A at f ClAri"C' o Lord IL Bentinek has arrive,. Hies' , Hotel, from Lincoln. r Dad,' ref°, The will of the late DoWage' h 16 0 ~ 1" Charlesto wn, has been proved in asun der t ' e x 4s, l oo bate nt to ru; ottl,oetiwor gative Court, and the asse ts sworn to ,.., , ate a 4 ~e a tf exhibits a singular instance of interest to that designated by power of Or 'at her , ,tet ,d l which conferred £lO,OOO absoluta uP d ° , ba t an "',. 0 4 to children. This trust is seemingly dieelairgewer aull, : or of follows to render the execution of lb° P ° by til e P . r gel le° resist the apportionments to life interestoot.,oo ac qui c e toe to sundry legacies to her sons, contingelJti_tved to g_ebero in her wishes. The will appears calo't to the Jo ha' litigation, which may afford a rich f 4ve et of the legal profession. 05........**...................--t, r)t . ll' • , it . ot i , Tore 19 ' for ' . 1 1 , TROUT IN THE TIIAMES.-- , co tic - ~ 1 har'l _lOl eit abundance of sport in the rive ...been tal,•1',0.01)&,0 fishing this season. Already' theY l'":eu 00 001.0"000,0,0vv. mond while angling for roach and di've;• 11Pleceerc5"„, seen feeding invarious parts of thc,rcs j).ligii,,,,a yr jot 3 ,, ef young trout, batched by the Thell',,,o Clio i': ‘ `,/i,e7ll' ,0 Society's apparatus, were turned . 1 7 2 ` ) , la w a lt-r t ; 0 irs a ,.. eh er ', Although*, trout il,,hirg renitvel'ee:,,diticli is 0 , 0 CIPP I Jallliaq, the fish are zeitlon at 4-; whic i i titav much e arlier than the lsr, April , ". generally commence epaations.